CX & Support
Considering adding either Gladly or Hark to your ecommerce brand's tech stack? Customer support and delivering an exceptional customer experience are critical for success in ecommerce. The right tool for your brand's specific use cases can help you personalize your customer experiences, drive higher retention rates and deliver a better customer experience. Read our comparison below between Gladly and Hark to see which one is right for your ecommerce brand.
Gladly is a people-centered customer service platform with all channels built-in (email, calls, texts etc). Connect customers to the best representative with full context on what they recently bought and their preferences.
Hark has created a contextualization engine that takes customers through a journey when getting in touch with service teams for support. This context creation drives much more efficiency for agents and elevates the customer experience.
- Centralize customer communication across channels into a single conversation.
- Offer personalized service by accessing a unified customer history.
- Utilize AI to predict and automate customer service responses efficiently.
- Enable customers to shop within the chat interface for immediate purchases.
- Streamline returns and exchanges directly through customer support channels.
- Analyze service performance with comprehensive, real-time reporting tools.
- Automate customer feedback collection via email and SMS after purchase.
- Customize feedback requests to match your brand’s voice and aesthetics.
- Analyze feedback trends with detailed reporting tools to improve services.
- Integrate with your ecommerce platform for seamless feedback loop creation.
- Use customer insights to tailor product offerings and marketing strategies.
- Encourage positive feedback sharing across social media platforms.
Gladly's pricing starts at $150 per agent per month for the Support Hero plan. The plans are structured with increasing levels of functionality, ranging from the $150 per agent per month Support Hero plan up to the custom-priced Personalized Consultation plan for more advanced needs.
Hark's pricing starts at £1.20 per ticket, with no setup fees or hidden costs. The plans are structured with a pay-as-you-go model, allowing businesses to scale their customer support services up or down as needed without any long-term commitments.
Gladly integrates with a variety of platforms to streamline customer service and satisfaction processes. Key integrations include:
- Shopify
- Magento
- Medallia Agent Connect
- Big Commerce
- Klaviyo
The most popular integrations offered by Hark include:
- Zendesk
- Shopify
- Aircall
- Hubspot
- Instagram
- Facebook
- Klaviyo
- Amazon
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Gladly
 in their tech stack:
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FramebridgeFramebridge is an online custom framing store, offering a new way to custom frame made fast, easy & affordable.
FabFitFunThe FabFitFun box includes a selection of full-size products across beauty, fashion, fitness, wellness, home, and tech – delivered each season.
These highlight D2C brands from our database all currently leverageÂ
Hark
 in their tech stack:
BranchFurniture
Branch furniture is modern, durable and backed by a ten year warranty. From desks and ergonomic chairs to conference tables, lounge furniture and accessories, they sell one product in every category and it's built to outlast your lease.
TovalaFood
Tovala is a meal service for insanely busy people. They've reinvented home cooking to save time. They do this with their prepared meals that you cook through their tech-enabled oven.
Scan the QR codes provided with the meals purchased on the oven, and it will start cooking your meals in 20 min.
ThesisHealth & Wellness
Thesis is the world's first personalized nootropics company to activate every kind of brain.